Amelia Josephine Burr Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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To go back means defeat.
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We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
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I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
